Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions

by G. R. Boys-Stones (Editor)

Overview

How closely do the theoretical notions of "metaphor" and "allegory" developed by ancient rhetoricians reflect the practice of Classical writers? This question is tackled through eleven new papers by a team of distinguished academics. Ancient theories of metaphor are compared with twentieth-century alternatives; theory is tested against practice; and allegory—a distinctive though neglected feature of ancient literature and philosophy—is explored against the background of the rhetoricians' claim that it is one form of metaphor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199240050
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/29/2003
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	8.74(w) x 5.42(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

G. R. Boys-Stones is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Durham

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, G. R. Boys-Stones2. Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style, Doreen Innes3. Part 1. Metaphor, Christoph Leidl4. Plato on metaphors and models, E. E. Pender5. Literary metaphor and philosophical insight. The significance of Archilochus, Paul Crowther6. The problem of metaphor. Chinese reflections, G. E. R. Lloyd7. Metaphor and metonymy. Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others, Michael Silk8. Part 2. Allegory, Andrew Laird9. Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus. The origin of Greek scholarship, Dirk Obbink10. The Stoics' two types of allegory, G. R. Boys-Stones11. The rhetoric of the Homeric Problems, Donald Russell12. Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis, Mark Edwards